The petitioner also disclosed that she had earlier got high rankings in entrance exams for pursuing a postgraduate course at the AIIMS, Delhi, but missed securing a seat by a few ranks.
She added that she wrote to AIIMS urging it to reserve a few seats for transgender candidates in line with the Supreme Court’s NALSA judgment, to no avail. She has now urged the Court to direct that her application to join the AIIMS course be reconsidered.
“Despite being qualified, the Petitioner finds herself unemployed, owing to the discriminatory practice of the Respondent Nos. 3 to 6 (ICMR, AIIMS, Delhi Department of Welfare) for their failure to issue Separate Vacancies for Transgender Persons vide Horizontal Reservation, and such an act of discrimination is unlawful, arbitrary, and impermissible under law.”
Source: Barandbench
